Hong Luo
Bio
Dr. Luo is interested in computational fluid dynamics, computational magnetohydrodynamics, computational aeroacoustics, fluid-structure interaction, high-performance computing, and unstructured grid generation.
At the graduate level, Dr. Luo teaches Computation Fluid Dynamics (MAE 766). This course is concerned with the finite difference, finite volume, and finite element methods for solving the governing equations in fluid dynamics. Dr. Luo guides his students toward an expertise in numerical methods and strong capabilities in programming.
At the undergraduate level, he teaches Aerodynamics I (MAE 355) and Heat transfer fundamentals (MAE 310). In Aerodynamics I, he brings in examples over the wide range of flow speeds he has encountered in his own work, like low speed flow past an Indy-racing car, transonic flow around a Boeing 747, supersonic flow past a missile, and hypersonic flow past a space shuttle.
The students who work with Dr. Luo are drawn to his area of research because they find the numerical simulations and modeling, both technically interesting and intellectually challenging, and appreciate the increasingly important role that they play in science and engineering. These students appreciate its major impact on the development, design, and analysis of modern airplanes, high speed trains, advanced ships/submarines, high performance cars, new weapon systems, and nuclear reactors, leading to work opportunities in government/industry/national labs. Dr. Luo looks for students who are self-motivated, hard-working, and strong in mathematics and computer programming.
See also Dr. Luo’s ResearcherID site and his Google Scholar link below.
Outside of work, Dr. Luo enjoys spending time with his family, exercising, and traveling.
Publications
- A r -Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Method Based on Interface Conservation for Reacting Hypersonic Viscous Flows , (2026)
- Direct Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the reacting multi-component flow equations , Computers & Fluids (2025)
- Robust 3D multi‐material hydrodynamics using discontinuous Galerkin methods , International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (2024)
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A parallelp‐adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for the Euler equations with dynamic
load‐balancing on tetrahedral grids , International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (2023) - On the design of stable, consistent, and conservative high-order methods for multi-material hydrodynamics , Journal of Computational Physics (2023)
- A reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method based on variational formulation for compressible flows , Journal of Computational Physics (2022)
- A vertex-centered finite volume method with interface sharpening technique for compressible two-phase flows , Journal of Computational Physics (2022)
- A moving discontinuous Galerkin finite element method with interface condition enforcement for compressible flows , Journal of Computational Physics (2021)
- A reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows on moving curved grids , Advances in Aerodynamics (2021)
- Reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin methods for compressible flows based on a new hyperbolic Navier-Stokes system , Journal of Computational Physics (2020)
Grants
The main objective of this project is to develop a Moving Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method with Interface Conservation Enforcement for reactive flow simulations at hypersonic speeds.
The main objective of this research effort is to develop and implement adaptive hp discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods into Quinoa for compressible multi-material flows on unstructured grids.
Develop moving discontinuous Galerkin methods for reacting hypersonic flows
We will explore and develop a moving discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, CASL, supports the broad national missions of enabling energy independence; supporting economic growth through the offering of superior technology ; and being good stewards of the environment, buy enabling predictive simulation of nuclear power plants. Such capability will make possible power uprates, lifetime extension and higher fuel burnups for currently operating and new Generation III+ nuclear power plants.
We will explore and develop a moving discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, CASL, supports the broad national missions of enabling energy independence; supporting economic growth through the offering of superior technology ; and being good stewards of the environment, buy enabling predictive simulation of nuclear power plants. Such capability will make possible power uprates, lifetime extension and higher fuel burnups for currently operating and new Generation III+ nuclear power plants. This proposal is for work that ORNL will pay TN state takes on.
The main objective of this research effort is to develop and implement adaptive hp discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods into Quinoa for compressible flows on unstructured grids.
The objective of the proposed project is to develop a third- and higher-order unsteady viscous solver for 3D unstructured arbitrary grids by combining the FOHS method and the rDG method.
The main objective of this LDRD-NUC project is to explore the use of Charm++ in Dr. Xia������������������s LDRD project in order to achieve a high parallel efficiency for the coupling of mesh-based structure mechanics and particle-based fluid dynamics.